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Liberia journalist detained for republishing story about president of Equatorial Guinea

October 6, 2016 9:43 AM ET

Plainclothes police officers on September 15, 2016, detained Festus Poquie, a journalist with Liberia's New Democrat newspaper, from his office and took him to the Liberia National Police headquarters in the capital Monrovia, where he was detained and interrogated for...

Lee Kuan Yew's legacy

March 22, 2015 5:18 PM ET

What to make of Singapore's first and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died Monday morning in the city-state? Under the banner of the People's Action Party, Lee held government power for three decades. After stepping away from the...

In Liberia, needy media strained to cover election campaign

June 11, 2010 4:30 PM ET

Last week in steamy, rain-soaked Monrovia, anticipation for the World Cup aside, I could already sense the buzz building around presidential elections scheduled for October of 2011. In the coming contest—only the second presidential election since the end of the civil war—Liberians...